Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:21:32 +0100 From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. Message-ID: <2966.1046326892@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:38:55 PST." <20030227033854.GA87187@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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In message <20030227033854.GA87187@rot13.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes: > >--DocE+STaALJfprDB >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:33:48PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>=20 >> We are now (almost) ready to ditch device major numbers if we want to. > >There are a number of ports that create device nodes in the package >tarball (e.g. the linux_base ports which create a shadow /dev). How >will this be affected under your plans? Depends what the shadow /dev contains and how it is used. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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